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html2text.php version 1.3 released (December 24, 2006)

Update: Use Markdownify, it’s the successor to html2text.

I just released html2text version 1.3 which sports a ton of bug fixes. Most notably all features of php markdown extra are now fully supported, including footnotes and abbrevations.

Also wrapping should work like intended and inline links (like <foo@bar.com>) won’t be converted to block links (like [foo@bar.com]([foo@bar.com](mailto:foo@bar.com))).

In the next version I’ll add some more options, especially disabling php markdown extra support. Also I’ll clean up the code a bit.

Merry Christmas to you!

html2text.php 1.1 (July 23, 2006)

Update: Use Markdownify, it’s the successor to html2text.

I changed my html2text.php function and it now supports non markdownable elements better. Previously something like <p class="foobar">...</p> would have resulted in <p>...</p>. Now these elements (which could be ported to markdown) will be left in plain html.

Additionally I made some changes which should lead to an improved performance.

Download

Get it while it’s hot: html2text.php 1.1 (.tar.gz ~ 120.9 KB)

Known Bugs

Yes, there are some, which I’ll try to fix in the next days (note: to better point out the bugs I just write what happens if you convert html to markdown to html):

Also if the parent element (e.g. <table>) gets parsed and a child <tr>,<td> or<th> has attributes they will be ignored and dropped. Workaround: Add a attribute to the parent element (e.g. a class / id).
If you give a single <li> element in the middle of a list some attributes it wont lose them, but will produce not well formed html:
```
<ul><li>abc</li> <li class="foo">bar</li> </ul>
```